u/Lower_Smile_9360

I’m coming back to running after getting injured about 5 weeks ago. I was 6 weeks out from what would have been my first marathon, my last long run before I had to stop was 16 miles. I’ve learnt a couple of lessons since then, number one being that I need to strength train (and have already been doing this for a couple of weeks), and number two that my training plan probably wasn’t great!
I used Runna, and I was doing 4 runs a week, my mid week runs were quite short with usually one easy, one tempo, one intervals, then the long run at the weekend. I’ve since seen advice suggesting that my mid week vs long run mileage wasn’t balanced well, and that as a novice I probably didn’t need so much speed work.
My question is what training plan should I use instead? I want to run an October marathon, assuming my recovery continues well, and would likely be able to do an 18 week one. I’ve seen the Hal Higdon novice 2 one online, which looks decent? I went a good advancement from a standard beginners plan, but not crazy hard given I got injured.